南宋 梁楷 澤畔行吟圖 團扇|Poet strolling by a marshy bank
Liang Kai
early 13th century · Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk · Asian Art
Liang Kai served as a painter-in-attendance at the Song Imperial Painting Academy in Hangzhou from about 1201 to 1204; he relinquished that prestigious position to live and paint at a Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhist temple. Like his best-known paintings, preserved mostly in Japanese collections, this small landscape conveys a spiritual intensity. Under the great cliff, in the stillness of the landscape, a solitary figure meditates on the illusory world before him.
- Artist
- Liang Kai
- Date
- early 13th century
- Medium
- Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
